Brandon Marshall, Chris Harris disagree with Elway's 'soft' remark

Broncos general manager John Elway created a stir on Friday evening when he said he believes his team has gotten a little soft. After Denver lost to the Bengals on Sunday evening, cornerback Chris Harris and linebacker Brandon Marshall disagreed with their boss’s statement.

“Everybody in this organization is accountable for how we are playing right now,” Harris said when asked for his thought’s on Elway’s comment.

Marshall had plenty more to say.

“We definitely didn’t take kindly to those remarks,” Marshall said. “I understand this is his team and he put it together, so his name is on it, but it’s our skin in the game.

“Nobody is soft on this team. We work our butt off and we work hard. We play hard and we go out there and give it 100 [percent] every game and every practice. We just fall short.”

Marshall also responded to fans on Twitter who backed up Elway’s remark.

Defensive end Derek Wolfe took a different approach, noting that he and his teammates had to make Elway change his mind through their play.

“He’s the boss,” Wolfe said. “Whatever he says, goes. If that’s how he feels, then we have to make sure he doesn’t feel that way. The boss says it’s not good enough, that means everybody is not doing good enough. I’m just trying to make sure we stay together. We have to stick together through times like this.”

Denver will try to snap a six-game losing streak this week when they face the Raiders on the road in Week 12.